Need a new Receiver

[TLS Guy]

It completely quit. I disconnected everything except for the power cable and it just will not power up at all. Nothing.

I think when I get my new receiver, I will get rid of that volume knob. It is a rotary. The more I read up on them, the less I want to even use it. It did make it easier since anyone is able to adjust the volume when on the patio and in the pool. Going to an app for volume, we are heavily relied on my phone for volume which is a pain if I am in the pool and I gotta get out, dry my hands just to adjust the volume. I was just being lazy with adding it in the first place .

I went to Best Buy to have a look at the different receivers and see what all my options were. They almost had me talked into the Denon AVR-X3800H and after some consideration, I went ahead and went for the glory with the Marantz Cinema 50.

Those rotary volume controls are digital volume controls, and I am not aware of major issues with them, but anything can fail.

That seems a nice receiver and should be for the price of it. What is your external amp you are using now? If possible I would use an external amp for the front three speakers. That is a lot of amps powered from one power supply.

For that money, I hope you get years of service out of it.

 

[hemiram]

I will be shocked if there are non-cannibilized parts available in 2035 for anything less than absolute top end made today, and pleasantly surprised if even the top end stuff has parts available. There are so many pieces of equipment that is basically a paperweight/museum piece due to a critical IC or display part being unavailable. I have some old pre IC shortwave receivers that probably can be repaired to last another 100 years, but I also have some that are one failure away from being paperweights. One old receiver I don't have anymore has multiple problem components that are now failing at age 45 or so. Magnetic encoder, mechanical IF filters, and some IC's.. Any of them fails, it's unlikely you can find a donor part, so it's toast. There was someone working on swapping out the oddball magnetic encoder for an optical one. I don't know if he got it working, but if not, it saddens me to think that great receiver is kaput: